Police are accused of using aggressive tactics that are humiliating law-abiding young people as fears over music festival drug deaths escalate.
Victoria Pengilley reports for news.com.au.
Police are accused of using aggressive tactics that are humiliating law-abiding young people as fears over music festival drug deaths escalate.
Victoria Pengilley reports for news.com.au.
On Wednesday 19 December, Redfern Legal Centre (RLC) launches ‘Safe & Sound’ – a campaign that seeks to stop the high number of police strip searches occurring in NSW, at music festivals and beyond.
On 28 March 2018, the Treasury Laws Amendment (Australian Consumer Law Review) Bill 2018 (Cth) was passed and will enact the first suite of proposals of the Australian Consumer Law Review.
Figures from an analysis of police data by Redfern Legal Centre show increased use of lethal practice in NSW.
Paul Gregoire reports for Sydney Criminal Lawyers.
Redfern Legal Centre’s police powers solicitor Samantha Lee and Dr Vicki Sentas, convenor of RLC’s police powers clinic, spoke to Buzzfeed News about the Suspect Targeting Management Plan (STMP) used by NSW Police to target children as young as nine years old.
The NSW Parliament Law and Safety Committee has just released a report calling on NSW police to make publicly available details surrounding a “hidden” blacklist used by police to target children as young as nine.